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'''<dfn>pronunciation</dfn>''' is an online means using text or audio to indicate how to say a person's name.

<blockquote>“Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”<br/>
—Anonymous</blockquote>


== IndieWeb Examples ==

==== A Challenge for 2018! ====

Add an audio file of your preferred pronunciation of your name to your homepage [[h-card]] and add yourself to the list below. If you do, {{martymcguire}} will give you a shout-out on [[TWITIWAE|This Week in the IndieWeb Audio Edition]]!

=== Martijn van der Ven ===
{{Zegnat}} has an [[h-card]] which [https://vanderven.se/martijn/ includes a visual written IPA version of his name's pronunciation as well as a link to an audio file to hear it spoken].

=== Jason McIntosh ===
{{jmac}} [http://jmac.org did exactly what {{Zegnat}} did], marking the sound-file link as a [[u-sound]] property of his [[h-card]]. This came out of a discussion in the #indieweb chat where all present agreed that a phonetic spelling wasn't globally useful (since phonetic spellings are still language-dependent), but few people can sight-read IPA. Jason thought that an IPA rendering that was conspicuously hyperlinked to a sound file made for a suitable compromise.

=== gRegor Morrill ===
{{gRegor}} added written IPA to https://gregorlove.com/about/#pronunciation for the most common pronunciation of his first and last name on 2018-06-30 . Also used Web Speech API Speech Synthesis to include audio of it and a few other ways to pronounce my first name.
* I don't know IPA, so I used https://tophonetics.com to generate it; corrections welcome.
* I used <code>p-ipa</code> microformat property, following {{martijnvdven}}

=== Jacky Alcine ===
As of [https://jacky.wtf/2022/7/rXsm 2022-07-03], {{jacky}} has an audio snippet of how his name is said on his about page.

* I used <code>u-sound p-ipa</code> to describe this

=== capjamesg ===

{{capjamesg}} shows written IPA with a link to an audio clip where he narrates his forename on his home page.

=== Anthony Ciccarello ===

{{aciccarello}} added a button for pronouncing his name to his homepage on 2024-02-20. It uses the SpeechSynthesis API to produce an English audio output. This was chosen over an audio clip to avoid using his own voice and to do something more neutral.

=== Add Yourself ===
* {{addyourself}}

== Silo Examples ==
=== Facebook ===
[[Facebook]] has a built-in pronunciation functionality to help users indicate how their name is pronounced. It can be found in the About tab >> Details About You >> section entitled "Name Pronunciation". Their UI suggests several common pronunciations based on one's name as well as the ability to craft one's own version. They then also provide a "play" button which gives a robot produced pronunciation of the name thus specified.

[[File:UI_for_Facebook_name_pronnciation.PNG]]

=== LinkedIn ===
[[LinkedIn]] added the ability to upload a recording of your name to your profile.

https://blog.linkedin.com/2020/july/2/help-others-pronounce-your-name-correctly

== See also ==
* [[h-card]]
* [[language]]
* [http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-pronunciation rel-pronunciation]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet International Phonetic Alphabet]
* https://twitter.com/FrankElavsky/status/1470815627480866821
** "All academics should put a "how to pronounce my name" section on their personal website because I get the slightest bit of anxiety meeting someone for the first time when I've only read their papers and interacted with them on social media." [https://twitter.com/FrankElavsky Frank Elavsky] December 14, 2021
* https://name.pn/kim-foale feat. an audio file with their name's correct pronunciation
* [https://una.im/ Una Kravets] shows a speech bubble icon (💬) and a speaking head icon (🗣️) behind her name on the home and [https://una.im/about/ about page] respectively. These trigger an audio file to be played.

== See Also ==

* https://namedrop.io/, a service for posting the pronunciation of your [[name]]